Dragan Tsankov

Dragan Tsankov (9 November 1828-24 March 1911) was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 7 April to 10 December 1880 (succeeding Kliment Turnovski and preceding Petko Karavelov) and from 19 September 1883 to 11 July 1884 (succeeding Leonid Sobolev and preceding Karavelov). He was a leader of the Liberal Party.

Biography
Dragan Tsankov was born in Svishtov, Ottoman Bulgaria on 9 November 1828, and he initially worked as an Ottoman civil servant before becoming a Catholic journalist. He later joined the nationalist opposition and later supported the April Uprising of 1876, despite initially opposing it. Tsankov became a spokesman for the moderate liberal cause, and, in 1880, he was appointed Prime Minister at the head of a Liberal Party government. Prince Alexander of Battenberg feared that Tsankov's establishment of a national militia, limited rights for Muslims, and anti-clerical policies would lead to a liberal revolution, and a series of foreign policy errors with Austria-Hungary forced him to resign later in 1880. In 1881, he opposed the military coup, resulting in him being placed under house arrest. In 1883, after Prince Alexander restored the civilian government, Tsankov returned to the premiership, and he diminished the power of the Russian generals Alexander von Kaulbars and Leonid Sobolev. He resigned in 1884 and went on to found the Progressive Liberal Party, and he died in 1911.